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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 2/27/20
(Local News ~ 02/27/20)
Approval of minutes n Minutes for Feb. 24 Communications/reports n Purchase order approval request No. 25 to UMB Bank for direct payment to Missouri Vocational Enterprises Public comments...
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Road work 2/27/20
(Local News ~ 02/27/20)
Beginning at 8:30 a.m. today, City of Cape Girardeau sewer crews will close the 2400 block of Albert Rasche Drive for emergency sewer line repairs. The road closure is expected to last up to one week, depending upon weather, according to a city news release...
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A special 20th birthday meal
(Community ~ 02/27/20)
My father-in-law, Jerry McClanahan, is getting ready to have a 20th birthday. Yes, that's right, he's had 19 actual birthdays, but on Saturday, February 29 he'll celebrate on his leap day birthday for the 20th time. Over the years we have had fun with his leap day birthday and have tried to make them special for him. ...
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Yes we'll Rally 'round the fries, boys
(Community ~ 02/27/20)
Rally's Drive-In recently opened a restaurant in Jackson, and its claim of "Famous Seasoned Fries" is what really inspired my trip. Any time a place claims "famous" or "world's best," well, that just has to be proved to me and my taste buds. Rally's is on the corner of highways 34 and 25 where Rhodes 101 Stop convenience store used to be. ...
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Seminar to show how to use native plants in yards, create habitats for bees, birds
(Local News ~ 02/27/20)
Even small changes to your yard can make a big difference to native plants and pollinators, said Jamie Koehler, assistant director of the Conservation Nature Center in Cape Girardeau. This year’s Native Plant and Garden Seminar, set to start at 8:15 a.m. March 14 at the Nature Center, will center on empowering gardeners with knowledge to help build and boost ecosystems in their own yards...
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Analysis of CDC data shows Missouri ranked fourth in nation for 2018 gun-death rate
(Local News ~ 02/27/20)
The State of Missouri had the fourth-highest gun-death rate in the nation in 2018, according to a new analysis conducted by the Violence Policy Center, a national educational organization working to stop gun death and injury. According to a news release from the organization, the VPC’s findings were obtained using recently-released Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (or WISQARS) data from the Center of Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control for overall gun-death rates in 2018, the most recent year for which data is available. ...
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Attorneys expect thousands of dicamba lawsuits
(Local News ~ 02/27/20)
A quarter-billion dollar verdict in the landmark dicamba herbicide trial in Cape Girardeau earlier this month wasn’t the end of the story. In fact, it was barely the first chapter, according to attorneys who are handling additional dicamba cases. “Before the verdict, we had somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 farmers,” said St. Louis-based attorney Joseph Peiffer, referring to the number of farmers his firm was representing in dicamba litigation. “Since then, our phones have been ringing off the hook.” ...
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Local veterans group celebrates 78 years of Seabees
(Local News ~ 02/27/20)
The Seabees don’t look a day over 78. On March 7, a local chapter of the Seabee veterans group will be celebrating the special unit’s 78th anniversary with a birthday celebration at the Missouri’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Perryville. The ceremony will honor some 75 local veterans who served in the Construction Battalion — nicknamed Seabees — and will also include a chapter meeting prior to the celebration...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 02/27/20)
Today is Thursday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2020. There are 308 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 27, 1922, the Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote...
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Utility to pay $53M for blasts that damaged homes, killed 1
(National News ~ 02/27/20)
BOSTON -- A utility company will pay the largest criminal fine ever imposed for breaking a federal pipeline safety law -- $53 million -- and plead guilty to causing a series of natural gas explosions in Massachusetts that killed one person and damaged dozens of homes, federal officials said Wednesday...
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Speak Out 2/27/20
(Speak Out ~ 02/27/20)
The Democrats want to legalize marijuana but take your right to own a firearm. No thank you. I believe in the Second Amendment and think drugs such as marijuana should remain illegal. The money that the City Council and School Board are proposing to spend on a new swimming pool in South Cape would be much better spent on shoring up our numbers of police officers, increasing police salaries, and giving them the assistance they need in fighting crime in that part of the city. ...
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Wrong on impeachment
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/27/20)
When I was in law school we joked that the most powerful writ known to the judicial system was the habeas fixus. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republicans he leads showed the usefulness of this legal tool in the recently concluded trial of Donald Trump...
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Lost Medicaid coverage
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/27/20)
I am a mother and full-time student at SEMO. I was 37 weeks pregnant with my second child when my 5-year-old and I were notified that our Medicaid coverage was being canceled. I had weekly visits scheduled with my midwife and was told that if I didn't have insurance coverage, I would be required to pay $85 per visit. ...
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Night to Shine is event worth celebrating
(Editorial ~ 02/27/20)
One of the feel-good events of the year was held earlier this month at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson. Working in conjunction with the Tim Tebow Foundation, the Jackson congregation hosted its second annual Night to Shine event to provide a prom-like atmosphere for individuals with special needs...
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English woman wins annual pancake race with Kansas town
(National News ~ 02/27/20)
LIBERAL, Kan. — An Englishwoman barely squeaked out a victory over a competitor across the pond in Kansas in Tuesday’s annual pancake race between their British and American hometowns. Katie Godor of Olney, in Buckinghamshire, ran the 71st International Pancake Day race with a time of 1:06 seconds. That just beat the time of Whitney Hay, a student at Seward County Community College, who won the Liberal leg of the race in 1:09 seconds. ...
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Crafts can help refugees find community, and maybe a living
(Community ~ 02/27/20)
When Bahija Karim arrived in Idaho as an Afghan refugee in 2005, she knew little about American culture. She didn't speak English. A volunteer directed her to Artisans for Hope, a local crafts initiative for refugees. There, she was taught crafting skills and English. Artisans for Hope took Karim on field trips. They found her a job with a seamstress, which she held for nine years, and then they helped her start her own custom drapery business, The Golden Needle...
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Apps help volunteers get excess food to the hungry
(Community ~ 02/27/20)
Food waste and hunger are two enormous problems that some nonprofit groups say can be addressed together by getting the extra food to the people who need it. New apps are making that easier. The USDA estimates that more than 30% of the food in America is wasted each year. Besides food waste at home, there is also a lot of commercial food waste: restaurants preparing more food than customers buy, and grocery stores ending up with perishables approaching their expiration dates...
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Syrian troops push into last rebel area
(International News ~ 02/27/20)
BEIRUT -- Shelling and airstrikes by Syrian government forces killed at least three people Wednesday in northwestern Syria, where dozens of villages, including major rebel strongholds in the last opposition-held area, have been captured over the past few days...
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World battles virus epidemic as cases multiply outside China
(International News ~ 02/27/20)
SEOUL, South Korea -- Crews scrubbed everything from money to buses, military bases were on high alert and quarantines were enforced Wednesday from a beachfront resort in the Atlantic to a remote island in the Pacific, as the world worked to halt the fast-spreading virus that for the first time counted more new cases outside China than inside the country, where the epidemic originated...
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Gunman kills 5 at Milwaukee brewery
(National News ~ 02/27/20)
MILWAUKEE -- An employee opened fire Wednesday at Milwaukee's Molson Coors complex, killing five fellow workers before taking his own life, police said. The gunman was identified as a 51-year-old Milwaukee man who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said...
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Trump names Pence to lead U.S. response to coronavirus threat
(National News ~ 02/27/20)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump declared Wednesday the U.S. is "very, very ready" for whatever the coronavirus threat brings, and he put his vice president in charge of overseeing the nation's response. Trump sought to minimize fears of the virus spreading widely across the U.S. ...
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Court sides with Trump in fight over grants to 'sanctuary cities'
(National News ~ 02/27/20)
NEW YORK -- The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Wednesday in a decision that conflicted with three other federal appeals courts...
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Satellite almost on empty gets life after space docking
(National News ~ 02/27/20)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A communication satellite almost out of fuel has gotten a new life after the first space docking of its kind. Northrop Grumman and Intelsat announced the successful link-up nearly 22,500 miles above Earth on Wednesday. It's the first time two commercial satellites have joined in orbit like this...
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House makes lynching federal crime, 65 years after Till death
(National News ~ 02/27/20)
WASHINGTON -- Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the House has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush and named after Till, comes 120 years after Congress first considered anti-lynching legislation and after dozens of similar efforts were defeated...
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Pelosi urges Democratic unity amid Sanders' surge
(National News ~ 02/27/20)
WASHINGTON -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday urged party unity amid Bernie Sanders' surge in the presidential race, even as House Democrats worry about a volatile election season that could put a self-described democratic socialist atop the ticket and threaten their majority...
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Missouri Senate backs new limits on punitive damages
(State News ~ 02/27/20)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's Republican-led Senate swiftly advanced a bill Wednesday tightening standards for punitive damages in liability lawsuits after an all-night filibuster by Democrats successfully blocked a separate bill limiting lawsuits over asbestos-related illnesses...
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Gender identity bill faces criticism at Missouri Capitol
(State News ~ 02/27/20)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Republican lawmaker has proposed a bill that would let Missouri parents remove their children from classes and school events touching on sexual orientation and gender identity, causing some parents to protest the measure at the state Capitol...
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Missouri House advances new voter photo ID bill
(State News ~ 02/27/20)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republican lawmakers Wednesday took steps to resurrect a Missouri voter photo identification law that was gutted by the state Supreme Court. The court last month permanently blocked a central provision of the 2016 law requiring voters who lacked a photo ID to make a sworn statement in order to cast a regular, non-provisional ballot. ...
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Prayer 2/27/20
(Prayer ~ 02/27/20)
Lord Jesus, may we be a blessing to others today and always. Amen.
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Edward Dodd Sr.
(Obituary ~ 02/27/20)
Edward Lee "Mr. Ed" Dodd Sr., 66, of Scott City died Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 2, 1953, in Cape Girardeau to James Riley "J.R." and Bonnie Jean Finley Dodd. He married Marilyn Jo Mueller on March 8, 1971. She preceded him in death Dec. 19, 2018...
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Nancy Hutchings
(Obituary ~ 02/27/20)
Nancy Jean Hutchings, 70, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 10, 1949, in Fredericktown, Missouri, daughter of Robert B. and Frances A. Dollinger Hutchings. Nancy graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School; she worked for Rubbermaid and Walmart in Jackson and had previously worked for the Southeast Missourian. She was an avid St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan and enjoyed painting...
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Kathryn Todt
(Obituary ~ 02/27/20)
Kathryn Todt, daughter of the late John Emil Dumey and Bertha Bles Dumey, was born March 31, 1932, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed this life Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, at her home on the farm at the age of 87 years. On June 24, 1952, she was united in marriage to Carl Edward Todt Sr. in Oran, Missouri, who preceded her in death March 25, 2009...
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Out of the past: Feb. 27
(Out of the Past ~ 02/27/20)
After three years of charging food and travel expenses on corporate American Express cards, Cape Girardeau school administrators and board members concede some charges were inappropriate, with the worst record-keeping related to Supt. Neyland Clark's own expenses; when told last week questions had been raised by school district resident Amy Randol, Clark asked for an independent auditor to examine the district's travel-expense records and make suggestions for improvements...
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Cindy Crews
(Obituary ~ 02/27/20)
Cindy Lee Ellinger Crews, 64, of Land O' Lakes, Florida, died Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, at Advent Health in Wesley Chapel, Florida, surrounded by loved ones. Cindy was born Oct. 17, 1955, to Frank Thomas and Erma Lee Eakins Ellinger. On June 7, 1975, she married Donald H. Crews, who survives of the home...
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Kurtis Culver
(Obituary ~ 02/27/20)
Kurtis Michael Culver, 31, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, at Jackson Manor in Jackson. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Swan's flip-flop on opioid epidemic troubling for rural Missouri
(Paid Letter ~ 02/27/20)
I'm a parent who lost a child as part of the opioid epidemic. Every year I go to the Capitol to testify on the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program bill (eight years running now). I do this because I believe it is a tool we can add to the prevention tool box to curb addiction and death in this state...
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Smiles of Hope 10 year Anniversary celebration
(Submitted Story ~ 02/27/20)
Smiles of Hope started in March 2010 as a volunteer dental mission at the Lighthouse Church in Dexter Mo. Smiles of Hope currently offers tooth extractions once monthly for $5 per tooth. Smiles of Hope has extracted almost 13,000 teeth in 10 years from around 6000 patients saving millions of dollars to the community and offering help to those in need who otherwise would not be able to afford a dentist. ...
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Dexter, Missouri native, Paul Hessling, Gears Up to Run the 2020 Boston Marathon
(Submitted Story ~ 02/27/20)
Dexter, Missouri native, Paul Hessling, will be running the 2020 Boston Marathon and fundraising to support behavioral health services. This is Hessling’s first time running the 26.2 mile race and as a member of Team South Shore Health raising money to support the Grayken Center for Treatment at South Shore Health, located in Weymouth, Mass...
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